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OPINION

Juvenile impulses

Ventura
Published 5:40 p.m. PT March 26, 2018

In this Oct. 7, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington for a brief stop at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., on his way to Greensboro, N.C. The Trump administration sent an immigration policy wish-list to Congress that includes overhauling the country's green-card system, hiring 10,000 more immigration officers and building a wall along the southern border.(Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP)

After watching the "60 Minutes" interview, I was abhorred at the alleged actions Stormy Daniels detailed. Here was a man with no regard to his family, and impulses so juvenile for someone who had just turned 60.

Yet my appall is nothing new. For one long October in 2016, all the news cycle ever covered was the “pussy tape” incident, which also occurred around the time of more recent extramarital exploits. He then went on to win the Electoral College that November.

Donald Trump Jr. files for divorce. A Playboy centerfold model apologizes to Melania. When Ken Starr began his work investigating Bill Clinton, much of the focus was on failed Whitewater investments, yet his work led to impeachment proceedings regarding perjury over sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. What Robert Mueller’s investigation could lead to may very well not be about Russian interference, but campaign finance violations over hush money about sex.

It says something about our faith in government when these actions (the White House has not denied Michael Cohen’s payments to Daniels, which only better disgrace Cohen and Trump) do not faze many Americans. He urges law and order, yet he possesses none, and no one can control him, as evidenced by his erratic firings and departures.

Should someone of his temperament and previous actions even be allowed to continue running our government? Many people knew what type of man he was when they voted him in to succeed Obama, and these developments have happened so quickly over the course of two months, it will be interesting to see where the next two months lead us.

Garrett Alexander Mueller, Thousand Oaks

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